I want you to think about the problem of stupidity. We were created in the image of God – in knowledge, holiness, and righteousness… Knowledge – and particularly, knowing God – is part of what it means to be human. When man exchanges the knowledge of God for idols, man is stupid – or, to say it another way, when man fails to know and love God, man becomes like a beast.
Stupidity is not the same as ignorance. Ignorance may simply be a lack of knowledge. The solution to ignorance is usually education.
But stupidity is a different sort of problem. No matter how much you teach a stupid person, they won’t get it. When you call somebody stupid you are saying that in some sense they are “brutish” – they are less than fully human.
That’s why it is generally not very polite to call people stupid.
But Jeremiah goes so far as to say that every man is stupid. Humanity has become brutish. And, worse yet, when the shepherds of Israel are stupid – when they become like beasts – then the flock is scattered.
How did this happen? Well, as Mark likes to say, “Sin makes you stupid.”
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